But why divert military resources to protect horses, however mighty?
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Unfortunately, not all military resources are currently situated to maximize readiness.
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Some fellow troops resented the military resources devoted to searching for him.
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Military resources being used for border security would not be entirely novel.
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He called on the government to move more military resources to his province.
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They also understand the importance of having all military resources needed to win.
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Both the French and Dutch governments have now sent aid — including military resources.
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He could send more military resources to help with search and rescue operations.
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More US military resources are set to deploy to the region as tensions rise.
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He famously vowed to "pivot" U.S. military resources from the Middle East to Asia.
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He has previously said military resources should be deployed around the country to build hospitals.
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And Mr. Crow reflected on his time as an Army Ranger dependent on military resources.
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But the reliance on military resources often is more expensive in disasters than using civilian contractors.
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He's consistently pushed for more military resources and surrounded himself with generals and hawks in his Cabinet.
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MACCALLUM: It looks like he&aposs getting countries to pay more and to commit more military resources.
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He consistently has opposed the use of American military resources unless there is a clear economic payoff.
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H.R. McMaster and Gary Cohn wrote of using America's "diplomatic, economic and military resources" for American security.
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It was 1783 and the Continental Army's officers were set on mutiny over pay and military resources.
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He also, however, implied that would not require major U.S. military resources in new areas the future.
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That neglects the relationship between the two; as Ottoman military resources fought on five fronts, independence movements flourished.
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Until then, it will be difficult to anticipate the additional military resources the island will need, she said.
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He also, however, implied that would not require major U.S. military resources in new areas in the future.
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" Democrats immediately slammed the move as a raid on military resources for what they called a "vanity project.
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He noted that the US provides 75% of the military resources in Syria and covers 25% of humanitarian aid.
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And as Vox notes, he "could deploy more military resources to help with search and rescue operations," but isn't.
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Mahdi said he also explicitly told Trump the US was not to bring additional US military resources into the country.
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This yielded the tentative "graduated pressure" approach, rather than a decisive early concentration of military resources — especially combat ground troops.
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That doesn't excuse Congress using Department of Defence as a pork factory or wasting military resources on peripheral missions, however.
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" Dems' response: Democrats immediately slammed the move as a raid on military resources for what they called a "vanity project.
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On Friday, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis authorized the use of troops and other military resources at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Last week, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis authorized the use of troops and other military resources at the U.S-Mexico border.
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Mac Thornberry opposed the president on this front, arguing that to divert military resources towards border patrol would be too costly.
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But it would allow economic development in once off-limits areas and shift more military resources to fighting growing criminal gangs.
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Critics blasted the decision as an unnecessary political show ahead of the midterms and a drag on military resources and readiness.
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Mr. Putin does not control the American media, and Russia lacks the financial and military resources that the Soviet Union had.
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The ever-increasing demand for military resources in a growing number of places is causing increased concern in the U.S. military.
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An Islamist insurgency in the impoverished north is stretching the government's military resources and increasing the imperative for an accord with Renamo.
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But will Britain be willing to commit military resources if it no longer has a seat at the EU decision-making table?
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She has long called for a no-fly zone to protect Syrian civilians, which would require significant military resources and possibly airstrikes.
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President Barack Obama conducted a "surge" of American military resources in Afghanistan in a bid to turn the corner on the war.
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It would also stretch U.S. military resources needed elsewhere, possibly incur massive new costs and fuel misgivings among some countries in the region.
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We often try to build coalitions of countries to do things like issue sanctions or even move more of their own military resources.
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For both reasons, the Iranians would have felt they had to come to Syria's aid and start pouring military resources into the fight.
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But President Eisenhower, concerned about the Soviet Union's work on intercontinental ballistic missiles, was reluctant to invest military resources in a space race.
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They were trying to divert U.S. military resources from Vietnam and pressure the South Koreans into recalling their two divisions from that area.
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Russia has far greater military resources, and Putin is an aggressive negotiator who is always angling to expand Russian influence in the region.
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The two rejected requests highlight the disconnect between the White House and the Pentagon over the use of military resources to bolster border security.
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The third century saw civil war blossom all over the empire, sucking military resources away from other places they were needed (on, say, trade routes).
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It is unclear how many troops will be assigned to the border and whether any funds will be allocated to the diversion of military resources.
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Words and vision, after all, aren't enough if they're not followed up with coherent policies and the diplomatic, humanitarian and military resources to implement them.
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Ever since he was on the campaign trail, Trump's been pushing the idea of dedicating military resources to figuring out how to fight space battles.
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The US standoff with Iran escalated Monday when the Trump administration announced the deployment of 1,000 additional troops and extra military resources to the Middle East.
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Washington (CNN)The US will send 123,000 additional US forces and more military resources to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran, the Pentagon announced Monday.
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The Russian government on Saturday criticized the U.S. for bolstering military resources in eastern Syria, calling the move an "act of international state banditry," Rueters reports.
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An indispensable step is to focus our full diplomatic and military resources on the movement's inspiration and patrons, including ISIS, but chiefly Saudi Arabia and Iran.
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The deployments to border states to back Customs and Border Protection agents were viewed by Trump critics as a political stunt and waste of military resources.
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Mr. Pompeo told the prince that his nation should contribute money and military resources to a maritime security program for ships around the Strait of Hormuz.
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So far, despite some progress, it has proved extremely difficult for member states to pool their military resources and reduce the needless duplication of military capabilities.
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Furthermore, smaller minority groups with less military resources will not be able to hold their own against hostile groups without substantial assistance from the international community.
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ISIS is the enemy of both Russia and the US. Other than Russia, what other nation has committed more military resources to rid Syria of ISIS?
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" But he said the wall should be funded by the Department of Homeland Security "rather than diverting critical military resources that are needed and in law.
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At the same time, the Trump administration has heightened tensions in the Middle East by ratcheting up pressure on Iran and deploying military resources to the region.
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A central Obama foreign policy initiative, the pivot was described as a strategic rebalance, shifting US diplomatic and military resources to the world's most dynamic economic region.
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He said the United States had so far provided 75 percent of the military resources and 25 percent of the humanitarian support used against the Islamic State.
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" He added that funding for wall construction "must come through the Department of Homeland Security rather than diverting critical military resources that are needed and in law.
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As part of this negotiation and commitment from the U.S., we should deploy FEMA and military resources to establish "temporary" communities with housing and resources (water and food).
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Police used helicopters, drones and even military resources to try to find the teens, who are suspected of killing a university botanist and a road-tripping young couple.
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Even though his invasion force got close enough to see the Kremlin towers, he siphoned off military resources from the west, and he underestimated his new Russian enemy.
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"Defending the Assad regime in Syria is a drain on personnel, funds, and military resources," terrorism expert Matt Levitt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy told CNN.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine has the military resources to defend itself and is monitoring the situation around Crimea, the spokesman for the General Staff, Vladislav Seleznyov, told Reuters on Thursday.
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In fact, the Pentagon regards cybersecurity as vital to its mission to generate, project, command and control the use of military resources, most of which have an online component.
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The Pentagon is already preparing to withdraw hundreds of troops from Africa as part of a strategy to shift military resources to counter threats from China and Russia. Maj.
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Writing for the Heritage Foundation's blog, James Phillips applauds the president's "bold tactical strike," but he warns against devoting military resources to remove President Bashar al-Assad of Syria.
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Before touring a just completed 30-foot (9 meter) tall, 2.2 mile (3.5 km) barrier at Calexico, Trump said more U.S. military resources will be dispatched to the border.
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While the United States does purchase and receive a large amount military resources from Israel, those amounts from the most recent years on record do not measure in the billions.
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French Defence Minister Jean Yves Le Drian promised last month to boost military resources to fight foreign cyber attacks, acknowledging that France was no less vulnerable than the United States.
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At the same time, the U.S. is beefing up its military resources in the Asian region as a show of force with tensions still remaining high over the North Korean threat.
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Mr. Biden cast the fight against the virus as something like a war, requiring a well-tested leader and a full, efficient mobilization of the country's public health and military resources.
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Tabatabai points to the asymmetric nature of a conflict between Iran and the US: Iran's military resources are depleted, she argues, and it has no nuclear weapons or powerful state allies.
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Relations between the two adversaries have taken a dangerous turn this week, beginning with the Trump administration's decision Monday to deploy 1,000 additional troops and more military resources to the Middle East.
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Relations between the two nations appeared to take a dangerous turn last week, when the Trump administration announced the deployment of 1,000 additional troops and extra military resources to the Middle East.
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This should lead to a serious discussion in Europe over how the allies can best pool military resources, spread risk and exploit national specialisms to take more responsibility for their own defence.
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The Obama administration's announcement this week that it plans to quadruple military resources devoted to deterring Russia in Europe highlights how seriously U.S. and NATO leaders view the threat posed by Russia.
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The deployment of military resources seems to have been smaller and slower than it was in Texas after Harvey or Florida after Irma, even though Puerto Rico's condition is far more dire.
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Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, voiced support on Wednesday -- before the White House's move -- for providing military resources to Saudi Arabia to prevent direct US involvement.
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As defense secretary, he is the chief custodian and proximate controller of the nation's military resources, which affords him considerable clout in the interagency process, and he has strong ties in Congress.
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A debate over the US drone's location The US standoff with Iran escalated Monday when the Trump administration announced the deployment of 1,000 additional troops and extra military resources to the Middle East.
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The case has drawn wide attention, with some fellow troops resentful of the dangers and military resources involved in searching for Bergdahl and Republicans critical of the Obama administration for the prisoner swap.
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German lawmakers spoke critically about Turkey's actions and insisted on the right to continue to visit Incirlik Air Base before approving continued deployment of military resources to support the fight against Islamic State.
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The Associated Press on Monday cited an anonymous US official as saying that the White House is considering sending more "military resources" to the Gulf, but no concrete decision has been made yet.
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If the last 70 years of peace on the European continent show us anything, it's that the international political willpower and the joint military resources mustered by NATO are critical to global security.
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On the one hand, U.S. regional allies — Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE — have consistently pushed the U.S. to recommit its military resources to the region in order to curb Iran's regional rise.
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Unlike immigrant advocates, Oklahoma Republicans didn't oppose Obama's use of Fort Sill or other military bases on humanitarian grounds — instead, they claimed they didn't want military resources being used to shelter migrant kids.
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Trump is exploring whether he could build his long-promised border wall -- even though Congress has rejected his request for funds and authority to do so -- by using military resources to do it.
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In Eastern and Central Europe, the White House needs to expand its efforts to strengthen NATO's hand by persuading all its members to spend the bare minimum necessary for the alliance's military resources.
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Trump's push to send the military to the border comes ahead of Tuesday's mid-term congressional elections and has triggered sharp reactions, with critics calling it a political stunt that misuses U.S. military resources.
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As a result, the Pentagon has a number of resources at its disposal that allow it to legally utilize military resources at the border despite the limitations thought to be imposed by the law.
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It's all part of a larger project by the Pentagon to consolidate its assets in Okinawa and "rebalance" its military resources in the region—with an eye on an increasingly powerful and assertive China.
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Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff, are engaged in high-level classified discussions with senior commanders around the world about how to allocate military resources for the next two years, officials say.
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The Syrian regime's military is hardly robust and has relied heavily on its allies in recent years; by negotiating a deal, Russia and Iran would avoid having to commit further military resources on Assad's behalf.
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The memorandum gives the secretary of Defense, working with DHS and the attorney general, 30 days to submit an action plan detailing what resources and actions are needed, including federal law enforcement and U.S. military resources.
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She said Britain would now not only use the police, security services and army, but also measures ranging "from economic levers, through cutting-edge military resources to our wider diplomatic and cultural influence on the world's stage".
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The F-22 has earned its stripes fighting ISIS during the air campaign in Syria where its primary role has been to protect other military resources by taking down enemy aircraft if they threaten the US assets.
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Due to this gradual shift of power away from Russia, Moscow has invested considerable political and military resources to weaken the EU. As such, Russia supports anti-EU politicians and funds information campaigns that undermine EU political cohesion.
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Iran is most certainly a very, very bad actor — it is spreading sectarian violence in Iraq (and elsewhere), funding anti-Israel terrorist groups, and devoting tremendous military resources to propping up Bashar al-Assad's murderous regime in Syria.
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Police in Canada have used helicopters, drone and even military resources in the hunt for Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, who are suspected of killing a university botanist and a road tripping young couple last month.
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Several local and state leaders had been pleading with Trump for several days to deploy military resources to assist in fighting the disease, including asking the Army Corps of Engineers to quickly erect hospitals to house coronavirus patients.
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Since then, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has focused more military resources on fighting the Islamic State, particularly in Palmyra, the ancient city that the group captured in May 2015, lost last March and recaptured in December.
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"In my judgment, the previous Administration failed to identify a sufficient basis to conclude that terminating the Departments' longstanding policy and practice would not hinder military effectiveness and lethality, disrupt unit cohesion, or tax military resources," the memo reads.
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With depleting human and military resources, both sides are relying on continued support from either the US and its allies (in the case of the Syrian opposition) or from Russia and Iran (as is the case for President Assad).
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The disclosure by U.S. officials, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity, illustrates the tension within the administration over using military resources to fortify the border against illegal immigration, a top election issue for President Donald Trump's base.
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"The concern clearly is the North Koreans have money that they are putting into military resources and proliferation of nuclear weapons, and we're anxious to make sure their ability in those areas is limited," King said in an interview.
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A discreet official, of course, would have elided the fact that Mr. Obama's rebalance to Asia and diplomatic approach to Iran appreciated this reality, cutting straight to Mr. Trump's own antipathy to committing military resources to the Middle East.
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"In my judgment, the previous Administration failed to identify a sufficient basis to conclude that terminating the Department's longstanding policy and practice would not hinder military effectiveness and lethality, disrupt unit cohesion, or tax military resources," the memo reads.
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"The previous Administration failed to identify a sufficient basis to conclude that terminating the Departments' longstanding policy and practice [against out transgender military service] would not hinder military effectiveness and lethality, disrupt unit cohesion, or tax military resources," Trump wrote.
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The report concluded that Assad's government has used chemical weapons on this scale because it has limited reserves of manpower and other military resources, and so settled on a strategy of indiscriminately attacking civilian populations to intimidate them into line.
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The president and his allies have focused their campaign on the populous, fertile, west of his country and few people expect him to lavish limited military resources on quickly retaking the eastern deserts or Euphrates valley area from Islamic State.
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MOSCOW, Feb 6 (Reuters) - It is Russia's sovereign right to decide where it deploys its military resources on its own territory, a Kremlin spokesman said on Tuesday, commenting on reports that Russia had deployed nuclear-capable Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad.
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While Trump approved what his administration calls the largest defense budget in US history last month, his unexpected push to use US military resources for immigration enforcement is raising concerns that the Pentagon divert some of its funding from other areas.
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The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Attorney General, are directed to determine what other resources and actions are necessary to protect our southern border, including Federal law enforcement and United States military resources.
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"The leader's No. 1 issue was to pass the Defense approps bill, which happened to be mine too," Shelby said, acknowledging that the Pentagon spending measure remains controversial because of military resources Trump has diverted toward building his border wall.
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The President gave his approval to acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan to deploy additional military resources to the Middle East to protect against what the Pentagon believes could be a rising threat from Iran against US troops already deployed to the region.
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Earlier on Thursday the government said a British warship will accompany British-flagged vessels through the Strait of Hormuz to defend freedom of navigation, a change in policy after the government previously said it did not have the military resources to do so.
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Trump's guidance suggested that, if trans service members are allowed to serve openly, military effectiveness will be hindered, the cohesion of military units could be jeopardized, and military resources will be strained due to the cost of medical care for transgender service members.
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"Seems to me this is an invented problem and a waste of time and dollars and military resources by targeting these dedicated service members who've proved their fitness and their ability to serve," Price said during a House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee hearing.
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In remarks that may stir new consternation abroad, Mr. Trump told the Economic Club of New York that he would pay for his economic agenda in part by requiring allies to shoulder the full cost of American military resources deployed in their defense.
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Over the last five years, conflicts in Syria and Iraq have continued to frustrate the United States diplomatically, sapped military resources and provided a breeding ground for Islamic State radicals, who have spread bloodshed and destruction in the region and the West.
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"I don't think anyone believes that with the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain that we cannot protect ships going through there, but if we start having to deploy those military resources, I think that's going to put additional pressure on oil," said Croft.
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Other than efforts to end two wars begun by his predecessor, Mr. Obama's principal foreign policy goal was to shift the nation's attention and military resources away from an aging Europe and an unproductive rivalry with Russia and toward the fast-growing Asia-Pacific region.
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The Democratic frontrunner also called for COVID-19 testing to be made both free and widely available, for mobile testing sites and drive-through medical facilities in each state, and for preparing hospitals for possibly gigantic patient influxes with temporary hospitals and military resources.
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While Colombia has had patchy success in its fight against illegal drugs - a $10 billion U.S. campaign did little to dent coca cultivation - the government says it will turn all its military resources against the gangs, whose links with Mexican cartels have made them more sophisticated.
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CNN reported earlier on Friday that Trump has given his approval to acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan to deploy additional military resources to the Middle East to provide further deterrence against what the Pentagon believes is a rising Iranian threat against US troops in the region.
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WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. troops in Europe warned on Tuesday that a two-decade American effort to cultivate Moscow as a partner has failed and Washington no longer has the military resources it needs in Europe to counter a "resurgent, aggressive" Russia.
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When illicit actors become firmly entrenched in an urban environment and garner widespread support from among the population (like they were in Grozny in the 1990s and Sadr City during the Iraq War), successfully countering their activities requires a significant application of time and military resources.
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WASHINGTON — A medical evacuation helicopter reached five United States soldiers in Somalia on Friday roughly 27 minutes after they radioed that they were being shelled by Islamist militants, according to a military spokesman, a prompt response that underlines the disparity in American military resources spread across Africa.
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"The events in the Gulf would now appear to have taken on an overt military dimension and we are waiting to see what action the U.S. Fifth Fleet and other military resources in the region may take," said Tom O'Sullivan, founder of energy and security consultancy Mathyos Advisory.
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While the German military can now legally launch a cyber-offensive following hacker attacks on military resources, there is no provision in German law allowing for the country's cyber forces to respond to attacks on civilian infrastructure like the power grid, hospitals or servers that process election results.
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Instead, the intervening years brought one failed strategy after another, each for identifiable reasons: diverted attention, lack of military resources, loss of political will, arbitrary timelines, a resurgent and externally supported Taliban, fatigue in both the United States and Afghanistan and severe internal problems within the Afghan government.
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Republicans believed the New START Treaty made too many concessions to Moscow, that Obama had not intervened forcefully enough against Russia's allies in the Syrian government, that he had not done enough to back the Ukrainian government, and that he had committed insufficient military resources to the defense of Central Europe.
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In Libya, the U.S. "led from behind" in an effort that resulted in the downfall of President Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, but Libya went from tyranny to anarchy because the U.S. and her allies were not willing to commit the military resources necessary to achieve a basic level of security.
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"Compelling the military to implement a new accessions policy while it is simultaneously completing a comprehensive study of military service by transgender individuals that may soon result in the adoption of different accessions standards would waste significant military resources and sow unnecessary confusion among service members and applicants," the Justice Department's new motion argues.
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A group of Democratic lawmakers is urging Defense Secretary James MattisJames Norman MattisOnly Donald Trump has a policy for Afghanistan New Pentagon report blames Trump troop withdrawal for ISIS surge in Iraq and Syria Mattis returns to board of General Dynamics MORE to send additional military resources to Puerto Rico after back-to-back hurricanes created "harrowing conditions" on the U.S. territory.
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Meanwhile, the success or failure of the 2018 World Cup depends in no small part on factors completely outside FIFA's control: the Syrian civil war increasingly looks like a Cold War proxy re-enactment, the U.S. is moving more and more military resources to NATO's Russian border, and the outcome of this year's (American) presidential election will determine much of the foreign policy rhetoric of the next four years.
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